9/11 memorial to feature audiovisual display

NEW YORK (AP) — Audiovisual tributes to the thousands of Sept. 11 victims — accompanied with stories from their lives — will form the core of the memorial museum, officials announced Wednesday.

Victims’ families have been asked to share materials for the underground exhibit within the footprint of the World Trade Center’s south tower. They also must confirm the accuracy of the names to be inscribed around two above-ground memorial pools, surrounded by a park.

“The key to this part of the museum is participation by friends and families of the victims,” said Joseph C. Daniels, president and chief executive of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. “We’re asking them to leave us recordings and images or remembrances of those they lost.”

Through a new telephone initiative — called Call to Remember — relatives and friends are being asked “to pick up the phone and spend time reflecting on those they lost,” Daniels said.